Brett
Helm — CEO & Board ChairmanBrett
Helm is the leader of DB Networks for both the Board of Directors
and the company’s direction. Brett brings over 25 years of
executive management experience in Information Technology to DB
Networks. Previously, as Coradiant's CEO and Chairman, he
oversaw the development of technology to optimize web applications
performance management. In 2011, Coradiant was acquired by BMC
Software. As President and CEO of IPivot, he helped create the
industry's first SSL acceleration appliances and Layer 7-aware
traffic management equipment. IPivot was acquired by Intel. Prior
to that Brett served as General Manager at @Work and held sales
positions at US West. He was an Air Force Officer and a veteran of
Operation Desert Storm. Brett earned a B.S. in Mathematics from the
University of Utah.

Steven
D. Hunt — President & COOSteve
is responsible for leading the development and operation of the
company. Prior to DB Networks Steve was SVP, Engineering and
Operations at Coradiant and later was a member of their Technical
Advisory Board before it was acquired by BMC Software. Steve was an
early employee and VP Engineering at Netsift (acquired by Cisco
Systems in 2005). He was also an early employee at Copper Mountain
(IPO in 1999), holding several positions starting as VP Engineering
and later GM & SVP Engineering. Steve spent many years at Bell
Labs, including heading their Internetworking Department. Steve
earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Drexel and a M.S. in
Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.

David
Rosenberg — CTO of ProductsDave
is DB Networks CTO of Products responsible for leading the advanced
technical research and patent development. Prior to joining the
company, Dave served as VP of Engineering at WireCache, where he
and his team developed the industry’s first general purpose, Oracle
database accelerator appliance. DB Networks acquired this important
technology in 2009 which brought Dave and WireCache team into DB
Networks. Dave brings more than 30 years of technology development
experience, including ten years at VP level for Oracle
Corporation’s server technology. Dave earned his B.A. in Mechanical
Engineering/Fluid Mechanics from UC Berkeley, and served in the Air
Force for six years, where he earned his M.S. in Astronautical
Engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology.(yes, he is
a rocket scientist!).

Michael
Sabo — VP, MarketingMichael
leads the market research, positioning, communications, and
promotions for DB Networks. Michael’s extensive background in
marketing, strategic planning, and product engineering was gained
from his tenure at Intel Corporation, US West (now CenturyLink),
and Contel (now Verizon) as well as start-ups AirFiber and Rhythms
NetConnections. In 1995 while at US West, he developed and launched
!NTERACT Internet Security as an earliest example of a cloud-based
Managed Security Service Providers (MSSP) service. Michael earned a
B.S. in Computer Science from Wright State University and Masters
degree from the University of Denver.

Eric
Varsanyi — CTO, ArchitectureEric
Varsanyi is a technical visionary. He lays the foundation for what
products DB Networks builds and the platform they are built on.
Eric was a principal engineer with WireCache since its inception
and was responsible for the product's overall architecture. Prior
to WireCache, Eric was principal architect in Intel's Network
Division, Advanced Development Lab, where he designed a loosely
coupled distributed L2 through L7 network switching system. He
designed and implemented a transparent SSL accelerator appliance
for IPivot (acquired by Intel for $500M). Other notable projects
include multithreading the BSD kernel at Berkeley Software Design
and launching Cray-3/Cray-4 prototype hardware along with porting
SVR4 Unix, while at the Cray Computer Corporation.